Hot take slash magical wishful thinking alert: What if Eiko Ishibashi will be to 2020s soundtracks what Mica Levi (“Under the Skin”) and Jóhann Jóhannsson (“Arival,” among others) were to those of the 2010s? A kind of Hans Zimmer antidote who finds new and exciting ways of complementing and commenting on movies other than making the synth go BBRRRRROOOOAAAAAAAAAWWWWWW? After “Drive My Car,” “Evil Does Not Exist” is Ishibashi’s second score that achieves this with feverish, post-rocky jazz vibes and some wonderfully weird string work—cinematic stuff through and through, even without the accompanying images. Kristoffer Cornils
Eiko Ishibashi – Evil Does Not Exist O.S.T.
